The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday to review the county’s tents and tarps policy, after Portland ...

With little fanfare, Multnomah County has adopted a new policy that lays out rules for how it will distribute tents and tarps ...

The proposal would add some limits to how tents and tarps are distributed, but critics don't feel it's any significant ...

Others argue that, until we have enough shelter, these items are ... on the county to resume providing tents and tarps to nonprofits to give to the homeless under new stipulations, including ...

"Handing out a tent in a person's time of great need is like putting a Band-Aid on gangrene. It's not helping out at all," he said.